"An American Werewolf in London An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 British-American horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne. The film tells the story of two American students, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while on a backpacking holiday in England. The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on August 21, 1981, the same year as werewolf movies ""The Howling"" and ""Wolfen"". It was a critical and commercial success, winning the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and the"
"and 1988, the public house was named ""The Jack the Ripper"", and memorabilia relating to the case were displayed in the bars. The brewery ordered the change back to its original name after a long campaign by Reclaim the Night demanded that a murderer of women should not be commemorated in such a fashion. The pub is mentioned in the graphic novel ""From Hell"" (1999), about Jack the Ripper, by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell. The film adaptation ""From Hell"" (2001), also features the pub, including a scene showing Johnny Depp (as Inspector Abberline) having a drink with"
"was delayed when the Corbin Park developer filed for bankruptcy in 2010. Construction activity began resuming in 2012; however, a new completion date for Trader Vic's has not been announced. The song ""Werewolves of London,"" a Top 40 hit co-written by Warren Zevon and appearing on his 1978 album Excitable Boy, contains the line ""I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's,"" presumably referring to the chain's London location. The restaurant is also referenced by Bill Murray's character Frank Cross to John Forsythe's character Lew Hayward in the 1988 movie ""Scrooged."" Trader Vic's Trader Vic's is a"
"service on Wednesdays. Jekyll & Hyde Club The Jekyll & Hyde Club is a theme restaurant owned by Eerie World Entertainment in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. The name and theme derive from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Victorian gothic novel ""Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". The Jekyll & Hyde restaurants' theme is spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes, with detailed decorations, set pieces, and actors who roam the restaurant and entertain patrons. Characters include Mr. Aloysius Goole, the wacky chief mortician, Jervis, the hyperactive and high-pitched French butler,"
"Jekyll & Hyde Club The Jekyll & Hyde Club is a theme restaurant owned by Eerie World Entertainment in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. The name and theme derive from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Victorian gothic novel ""Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". The Jekyll & Hyde restaurants' theme is spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes, with detailed decorations, set pieces, and actors who roam the restaurant and entertain patrons. Characters include Mr. Aloysius Goole, the wacky chief mortician, Jervis, the hyperactive and high-pitched French butler, and the charmingly"
"motor car, the Fox was the terminus of the horse-drawn bus service into London, run by the Davey family of publicans. The building formerly had stables at the back. The present building was constructed in 1904. In 2002, a dispute between rival Albanian drugs gangs at The Fox spilled out on to the streets of Palmers Green and two men were critically injured and a third man, Edmund Gullhaj (22), was pronounced dead at the scene. The Fox featured in the film of J.K. Rowling's novel ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" (2004). In 2015, the pub became the"
"The Yorkshire Grey The Yorkshire Grey was a common name for public houses in England, some still survive but most have now closed or changed their name. They were named for the Yorkshire Grey Horse, a breed commonly used to pull brewery drays. 140 London Road, Biggleswade At the corner of Grays Inn Road and Theobald's Road in Bloomsbury, Camden, London, situated to the north of Gray's Inn. It is a Grade II listed building, built in 1877 by J. W. Brooker. The pub was established in 1676 and was historically in the county of Middlesex. The Amalgamated Society of"
"Greyhound in Fulham, the Red Lion, the Rochester Castle, the Nashville in West Kensington, the Pegasus Pub on Green Lanes, Dingwalls and the Dublin Castle in Camden Town, the Pied Bull at Angel, Bull and Gate in Kentish Town, the Kensington near Olympia, the Newlands Tavern in Nunhead and Half Moon in Herne Hill (lone south London outposts) and The Sir George Robey in Finsbury Park. Out of London, venues included the Dagenham Roundhouse, the Grand in Leigh on Sea and the Admiral Jellicoe on Canvey Island. This network of venues later formed a ready-made launch pad for the punk"
"Sir Ralph Abercromby (pub) The Sir Ralph Abercromby, also known as the Abercrombie, is a pub between Jackson's Row and Bootle Street, in Manchester, England, named after Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby. Built in the 19th century, it is the only structure remaining in the area from the time of the Peterloo Massacre. Wounded people from the massacre were brought to the pub for medical treatment. Many later changes were made to the building, both inside and outside, with no substantial 19th century features remaining. It is thought to be the inspiration for the pub in ""Life on Mars"". The pub"
"Sir Ralph Abercromby (pub) The Sir Ralph Abercromby, also known as the Abercrombie, is a pub between Jackson's Row and Bootle Street, in Manchester, England, named after Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby. Built in the 19th century, it is the only structure remaining in the area from the time of the Peterloo Massacre. Wounded people from the massacre were brought to the pub for medical treatment. Many later changes were made to the building, both inside and outside, with no substantial 19th century features remaining. It is thought to be the inspiration for the pub in ""Life on Mars"". The pub"
"""Never Better"" and as Joe Jacobs in the ITV1 soap ""Emmerdale"". In 2010, he appeared as Alan Hoyle in ""Coronation Street"". In December 1987 he played Dr .James Shepherd in ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"", one of a series of Agatha Christie novels broadcast on radio by the BBC. In 2016, he played the role of the Archbishop of York in 4 episodes of the Netflix series ""The Crown"". His film roles include the 1981 John Landis film ""An American Werewolf in London"" (he later re-created his film role for the BBC Radio One adaptation of the film). He also"
"Dr. John Seward to eat at Jack Straw's Castle before spending the night at Church of Saint Marys graveyard to explore if Lucy Westenra became or not a vampire. Citations Sources Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead Jack Straw's Castle is a Grade II listed building and former public house in Hampstead, north-west London, England. The site is named after the rebel leader Jack Straw, who led the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 and who is said to have taken refuge on the site until he was caught and executed. A pub has existed here since at at least the early 18th century."
"and Hyde, they operate the nearby Slaughtered Lamb Pub, based on the movie American Werewolf in London as well as Jack the Ripper (at 228 West 4th Street), and the Night Gallery Café (at 117 7th Avenue South) which closed. In the 12th episode of the first season of reality show ""The Girls Next Door"", Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends are shown having dinner at one of the Jekyll & Hyde restaurants. There is an entertainer at the Jekyll and Hyde club named Dr. Mange, who is known to dance to popular music such as Love Shack during the dinner"
"David Naughton David Walsh Naughton (born February 13, 1951) is an American actor and singer known for his starring roles in the horror film ""An American Werewolf in London"" (1981) and the Disney comedy ""Midnight Madness"" (1980), as well as for a long-running ""Be a Pepper"" ad campaign for beverage maker Dr Pepper. He also starred in the short-lived sitcom ""Makin' It"" and sang its hit theme song ""Makin' It"", giving him a Top 5 hit on the Billboard charts. Naughton was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Rosemary (née Walsh) and Joseph Naughton, both of whom were"
"The Hobbit (pub) The Hobbit is a pub in the Bevois Valley area of Southampton, England. Previously the Portswood Hotel, it was named after J. R. R. Tolkien's book ""The Hobbit"" in 1989. In 2012 the pub was involved in a legal dispute with Middle-earth Enterprises, a company owned by film producer Saul Zaentz, over its use of the name. The Hobbit was originally known as the Portswood Hotel, and appears on 19th-century Ordnance Survey mapping. It was renamed The Hobbit in 1989. Its name is inspired by the race of the same name featured in the works of J."
"1547, who previously lived at Featherstone Castle in Northumberland. The village consists mainly of one main street rising up a steep hill passing through a market place on which the village's two pubs (the ""Crown Inn"" and the ""Fetherston Arms"") are situated. A third pub, the Black Bull, which at one time won awards for its food, overlooked the square but this closed in the early 1990s. The village also has one shop which houses a post office, a Methodist church and a well-attended primary school. Until quite recently there were further shops including a butcher and a branch of"
"Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire Thwing is a village in the Yorkshire Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Thwing and Octon. Thwing is located in the Yorkshire Wolds in the civil parish of Thwing and Octon about west of the North Sea coast at Bridlington. The village has a 12th-century Norman Church (All Saints), and a pub known as ""The Falling Stone"", previously ""The Rampant Horse"", before 1976 the ""Raincliffe Arms"". ""The Falling Stone"" pub name is a reference to the Wold Cottage Meteorite, which fell nearby on 13 December"
"in Clerkenwell in 1991. The Eagle has been joined by, among others, the Peasant, the Coach and Horses and the Gunmakers and the Green, which as part of a nationwide evolution of the traditional public house have since converted to gastropubs. It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin first met in the Crown and Anchor pub (now known as the Crown Tavern) on Clerkenwell Green, when the latter was visiting London in 1903. ""The Betsey Trotwood"" (named after Betsey Trotwood in ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens) adopted the name in 1983, having previously been the ""Butcher's"
"Manor Tavern. The current building dates from 1924, but a pub already existed on the site in 1888. In Skipton, North Yorkshire, the three storey stone-built pub named for the Duke of Devonshire is known simply as ""The Devonshire"". It was once called ""The New Inn"". In Derbyshire, where the Devonshire / Cavendish family has its great house at Chatsworth, there are Devonshire Arms pubs at Baslow, Beeley, and Pilsley, the last two both on the Chatsworth estate. Devonshire Arms The Devonshire Arms is a moderately common name for an English pub. The name is for the Dukes of Devonshire,"
"Dev"" or by its previous name The Hobgoblin, is said to be ""London's most famous alternative venue"". It was the first Goth subculture pub in Camden. It is the longest-surviving Goth pub in London and has been a focal point for the city's alternative scene for many years. During the 1980s, Spider Stacy and Shane MacGowan of The Pogues frequented the pub. The interior featured in ""Goths"", an episode from a 2003 BBC anthology series, ""Spine Chillers"". The Devonshire Arms in Chiswick's Devonshire Road (also named for William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire) is a gastropub, formerly known as the"
"Night,"". De Hems De Hems is a café, pub and oyster-house in the Chinatown area of London just off Shaftesbury Avenue. It made its name purveying oysters and now sells beers from the Low countries such as Grolsch and Heineken with Dutch food such as bitterballen and frikandellen. It is on the site of the Horse & Dolphin coaching inn which was built in 1685 and had been owned by bare-knuckle boxer Bill 'The Black Terror' Richmond in the early 19th century. This was rebuilt in 1890 by the accomplished pub architects, Saville and Martin, for the publican, Mr Crimmen."
"in the show Inspector Morse. Turf Tavern The Turf Tavern (or just ""the Turf"") is a popular but well-hidden historic pub in central Oxford, England. Its foundations and use as a malt house and drinking tavern date back to 1381. The low-beamed front bar area was put in place sometime in the 17th century. It was originally called the Spotted Cow but the name was changed in 1842, likely as part of an effort to extinguish its reputation as a venue for illegal gambling activities. The pub is frequented primarily by university students (of both Oxford University and Oxford Brookes"
"The Running Horse The Running Horse is a pub in the town of Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Dating back to 1403, on the bank of the River Mole, the Running Horse is located in one of the oldest buildings in Leatherhead. Built in the 15th century on land belonging to the church, The Running Horse was originally known as Rummings House, after Eleynor Rumminge who was written about by Henry VIII's poet John Skelton. The poem can be found on a wall in the pub. Legend has it that Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I, spent a night at the inn due to"
"million selling disc, the track also peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart. He starred in the Disney comedy ""Midnight Madness"" (1980) followed by his lead role in the Academy Award-winning horror film ""An American Werewolf in London"" (1981). He also appeared in the television series ""My Sister Sam"" and also in episodes of ""MacGyver"", ""Melrose Place"", ""Murder, She Wrote"", ""JAG"" and ""Seinfeld"". Dr Pepper ended its relationship with Naughton after he appeared nude in ""An American Werewolf in London"". David Naughton David Walsh Naughton (born February 13, 1951) is an American actor and singer known for his starring"
"reverted to within the Yorkshire boundary. In 1995, the Tan Hill Inn became the first public house in the UK to be granted a licence to hold weddings and civil ceremonies, after new laws were established to allow couples to marry in places other than churches or register offices. The pub is a free house and has served a range of beers from the Black Sheep and Theakston breweries. Visiting bands have included Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson and British Sea Power. In May 2007, Kentucky Fried Chicken threatened legal action against the Tan Hill Inn for trademark infringement over the"
"The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia The Wheatsheaf is a pub in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, that was popular with London's bohemian set in the 1930s. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings, were known for a while as the ""Wheatsheaf writers"" Other habitués included the singer and dancer Betty May, and the writer and surrealist poet Philip O'Connor, Nina Hamnett, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Carson and Quentin Crisp. In spring 1936, the poet Dylan Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in"
"English Shakespearian actor John Lowin's ""The Three Pigeons"" at Brentford. It has been said that the name ""Three Pigeons"" in any of its variants may have more literary associations than any other tavern name. Many other inns and taverns in England still use this name today. The earliest account is of a tavern keeper, William Earle who was born in 1690, and flourished in the early 18th century. Prior to the American Revolution, the Three Pigeons Tavern was well known in the area during the colonial era where the community in New Durham was located, as can be seen in"
"1992. There are (at least) two explanations for the name. One is that when a horse got the ""staggers"" it was bled by a farrier at the inn. Another is that the name of the pub comes from an incident during the Battle of Rathmines in 1649, when a wounded horse fled from the battle. The Bleeding Horse has been mentioned in several classic novels, most notably the ""Cock and Anchor"" (1845) by Sheridan Le Fanu and ""Ulysses"" by James Joyce. Literary patrons included James Clarence Mangan and Oliver St. John Gogarty. For several years during the 1960s the name"
"restaurant. Built in 1833 at 69 Charles Street, Sheffield, closed in 2006 and later demolished. Now Lokman Sofrasi a Turkish restaurant. The Yorkshire Grey The Yorkshire Grey was a common name for public houses in England, some still survive but most have now closed or changed their name. They were named for the Yorkshire Grey Horse, a breed commonly used to pull brewery drays. 140 London Road, Biggleswade At the corner of Grays Inn Road and Theobald's Road in Bloomsbury, Camden, London, situated to the north of Gray's Inn. It is a Grade II listed building, built in 1877 by"
"and 180 rounds, and was eventually called a draw. The name comes from the blade bone of a mammoth that was killed by prehistoric hunters. The skeletal remains of the animal were found preserved in the silt of the Kennet Valley; the name ""Bladebone"" was used to refer to the pub by 1666. The bone is encased in copper and hangs from the front of the pub as the pub sign. The copper casing is regularly repaired, and the bone within has been found to be preserved in an excellent state. In 1922, the pub was bought by Strange's Brewery"
"American Werewolf in London (1981)"". After viewing the work of special make-up effects artist ""Rick Baker"" in both films, especially the latter, make-up effects became Elsey's career ambition. In 1983, at the age of sixteen, Elsey met ""Baker"" on the set of the film . That meeting reaffirmed Elsey's plan to make makeup his career. Dreams of working in the film industry started forming during visits to ""Pinewood Studios"", ""Shepperton Studios"", and ""Elstree Studios"" in various counties in ""England"". Elsey frequently ran into Jim Henson (Sesame Street, The Muppets Show) while on the lot. He eventually met Lyle Conway who"
"Henry Hull Henry Watterson Hull (October 3, 1890 – March 8, 1977) was an American character actor who is best remembered for playing the lead role in Universal Pictures's ""Werewolf of London"" (1935). Hull was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of William Madison Hull and Elinor Bond Vaughn. Hull appeared in 74 films between 1917 and 1966, often playing supporting characters like the uncle of Tyrone Power's love interest Nancy Kelly in ""Jesse James"" (1939). He appeared as Charles Rittenhouse, a wealthy industrialist in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Lifeboat"" (1944). Other notable roles were as Abel Magwitch in the 1934 version"
"Newman Arms The Newman Arms is a public house and restaurant at 23 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. The pub dates back to 1730, and was once a brothel. The Newman Arms appears in George Orwell's novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" where it was the model for the ""Proles"" pub. It featured again in his ""Keep the Aspidistra Flying"", and in Michael Powell's film ""Peeping Tom"". In 2012, the pub held a mediation meeting with Westminster City Council to address customer congestion on the pavement outside. The landlady's joke suggestion to serve drinks more slowly was taken at face value by the"